Last Bull “Ledger”: Facing soldiers at Powder River Fight (Courtesy American Museum of Natural History)
Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie in the mid-1870s (Courtesy University of Oklahoma Western History Collections)
High Bull “Victory Roster”: Little Sun striking two Shoshone: roster captured from Sgt. Brown, 7th U.S. Cavalry, at the Little Bighorn (Courtesy National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution)
BOOKS BY TERRY C. JOHNSTON
Cry of the Hawk
Winter Rain
Dream Catcher
Carry the Wind
BorderLords
One-Eyed Dream
Dance on the Wind
Buffalo Palace
Crack in the Sky
Ride the Moon Down
Death Rattle
Wind Walker
SONS OF THE PLAINS NOVELS
Long Winter Gone
Seize the Sky
Whisper of the Wolf
THE PLAINSMEN NOVELS
Sioux Dawn
Red Cloud’s Revenge
The Stalkers
Black Sun
Devil’s Backbone
Shadow Riders
Dying Thunder
Blood Song
Reap the Whirlwind
Trumpet on the Land
A Cold Day in Hell
Wolf Mountain Moon
Ashes of Heaven
Cries from the Earth
Lay the Mountains Low
with admiration and appreciation
I dedicate this novel to
Ken and Cheri Graves
of the Red Fork Ranch,
and to
Mike Freidel
of Vermillion, South Dakota,
who all three graciously opened up their
hearts and their homes and allowed me to spend
the better part of a day moving across the
historic Dull Knife Battlefield
as few have since that dramatic battle:
from horseback.
Cast of Characters 
Seamus Donegan Samantha Donegan
Military
Lieutenant General Philip H. Sheridan—Division of the Missouri
Brigadier General George C. Crook—Department of the Platte
Colonel William B. Hazen—commanding Sixth U.S. Infantry, Fort Buford, D.T.
Colonel Nelson A. Miles—commanding Fifth U.S. Infantry, Tongue River Cantonment, M.T.
Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie—Fourth U.S. Cavalry, commanding cavalry wing, Powder River Expedition (brevet BRIGADIER GENERAL)
Colonel Richard I. Dodge—Twenty-third Infantry, commanding infantry wing, Powder River Expedition
Lieutenant Colonel Elwell S. Otis—Twenty-second U.S. Infantry (brevet BRIGADIER GENERAL)
Lieutenant Colonel William P. Carlin—commandant at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, D.T., Seventeenth U.S. Infantry
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Whistler—Fifth U.S. Infantry
Major George A. Gordon—Fifth U.S. Cavalry (Camp Robinson) (brevet COLONEL)
Major Caleb H. Carlton—Third U.S. Cavalry, commanding at Fort Fetterman (brevet COLONEL)
Major Edwin F. Townsend—Commanding Officer, Fort Laramie, W.T. (brevet COLONEL)
Captain Andrew S. Burt—H Company, Ninth U.S. Infantry
Captain Charles W. Miner—G Company, Twenty-second U.S. Infantry
Captain Malcolm McArthur—C Company, Seventeenth U.S. Infantry
Captain Louis H. Sanger—G Company, Seventeenth U.S. Infantry (brevet MAJOR)
Captain Mott Hooton—H Company, Twenty-second U.S. Infantry
Captain Augustus Randall—Quartermaster, Fifth U.S. Infantry, Tongue River Cantonment, M.T.
Captain Wyllys Lyman—I Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry
Captain James S. Casey—A Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry (brevet MAJOR)
Captain Andrew S. Bennett—B Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry
Captain Edmond Butler—C Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry
Captain Simon Snyder—F Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry
Captain Clarence B. Mauck—Fourth U.S. Cavalry (brevet MAJOR)
Captain Alfred B. Taylor—Troop L., Fifth U.S. Cavalry
Captain George M. (“Black Jack”) Randall—Chief of Scouts, Powder River Campaign Twenty-third Infantry (brevet MAJOR)
Captain John Lee—D Troop, Fourth U.S. Cavalry
Captain Wirt Davis—F Troop, Fourth U.S. Cavalry
Captain William C. Hemphill—I Troop, Fourth U.S. Cavalry
Captain Henry W. Wessels—H Troop, Third U.S. Cavalry
Captain Gerald Russell—K Troop, Third U.S. Cavalry
Captain John M. Hamilton—H Troop, Fifth U.S. Cavalry
Captain James “Teddy” Egan—K Troop, Second U.S. Cavalry
Captain J. B. Campbell—Fourth U.S. Artillery battalion commander (brevet MAJOR)
Captain John V. Furey—quartermaster, Powder River Expedition
Captain Edwin Pollock—Ninth U.S. Infantry, commander of Reno Cantonment (brevet MAJOR)
First Lieutenant John Bourke—Acting Assistant Adjutant General for Expedition
First Lieutenant Walter S. Schuyler—aide-de-camp to General Crook
First Lieutenant Oskaloosa M. Smith—H Company, Twenty-second U.S. Infantry (Battalion Adjutant)
First Lieutenant William Conway—H Company, Twenty-second U.S. Infantry
First Lieutenant Benjamin C. Lockwood—G Company, Twenty-second U.S. Infantry
First Lieutenant Mason Carter—K Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry (brevet CAPTAIN)
First Lieutenant Theodore F. Forbes—G Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry
First Lieutenant Robert McDonald—D Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry
First Lieutenant William Philo Clark—I Troop, Second Cavalry, aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Crook
First Lieutenant Henry W. Lawton—Fourth U.S. Cavalry, campaign Quartermaster for the cavalry (brevet CAPTAIN)
First Lieutenant Charles M. Callahan—B Troop, Fourth U.S. Cavalry
First Lieutenant John A. McKinney—M Troop, Fourth U.S. Cavalry
First Lieutenant Oscar Elting—Troop K, Third U.S. Cavalry (acting agent at Red Cloud Agency after 31 June)
First Lieutenant Charles Rockwell—Fifth U.S. Cavalry, expedition commissary officer
Second Lieutenant Alfred C. Sharpe—Company H, Twenty-second U.S. Infantry
Second Lieutenant William H. Kell—Company K, Twenty-second U.S. Infantry
Second Lieutenant James D. Nickerson—C Company, Seventeenth U.S. Infantry
Second Lieutenant Frank S. Hinkle—Fifth U.S. Infantry
Second Lieutenant Hobart K. Bailey—Fifth U.S. Infantry, aide-de-camp to Colonel Miles
Second Lieutenant James Worden Pope—E Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry